This week, NAVEX Global released its 2021 Incident Management Benchmark Report. The analysis, which tracked and analyzed corporate compliance trends based on data from more than 1.3 million global incident management reports...more
5/20/2021
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While hindsight may be 20/20, how can we use this to gain foresight into 2021?
The last twelve months have permanently altered the role of risk and compliance—increasing it in scope and elevating the function to a...more
12/23/2020
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For some time now, we’ve been saying on this blog that strong corporate compliance goes hand-in-glove with strong enterprise risk management. The former is often a subset of the latter, and the latter is crucial for a...more
Register for NAVEX Next, our annual risk and compliance virtual conference. Formerly the Ethics & Compliance Virtual Conference (ECVC), the new name recognizes that we must be forward-looking as we face an increasingly...more
10/7/2020
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Like every other compliance professional who’s paying attention, I have read the updated Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs guidance issued by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) last month. I found it both...more
COVID-19 is testing every part of a corporation and its business continuity planning. And the very top of the organization — namely, the board of directors — is no exception.
What are the board’s responsibilities during...more
4/22/2020
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Join us for our annual benchmark webinar to get an exclusive preview of findings from the Ethics & Compliance Hotline Benchmark Report.
Recent studies demonstrate how hotline reports are a key indicator of overall...more
3/26/2019
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Organizations that focus on creating ethical cultures come out ahead -
That’s why this year’s conference theme is Ignite a Winning Workplace Culture. Winning cultures do not happen accidentally – they’re navigated by...more
It’s been a month since ISO 37001 was published and there are some questions we have heard percolating in the compliance world about what this means. These are the questions we’ve been hearing the most...more
11/17/2016
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One collection of terms I hear a lot is “tools, processes and people.” All three need to be successfully deployed to make a compliance program run properly while also creating an organizational culture that supports...more
11/15/2016
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In what’s being called the most damaging event in the company’s 140-year history, Toshiba admitted this week to overstating its operating profit by $1.22 billion during the past several years. This staggering figure and...more